LCROSS Stories
Workshop Focuses on Lunar, Planetary Exploration
The Earth’s nearest celestial neighbor, the moon, received frequent visitors during the 1960s and early 1970s culminating in six landings by humans during the Apollo Program. In recent years, numerous robotic orbiters and landers have returned to the moon, Mars…
NASA Radar Finds Ice Deposits at Moon’s North Pole
Additional evidence of water activity on moon Using data from a NASA radar that flew aboard India’s Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft, scientists have detected ice deposits near the moon’s north pole. NASA’s Mini-SAR instrument, a lightweight, synthetic aperture radar, found more than…
Goddard Visualization Team Previews Lunar Impact
At 7:30 a.m. EDT on October 9, a two-ton rocket body will slam into a crater near the moon’s south pole. By studying the resulting plume of gas and dust, scientists hope this grand experiment will confirm the presence of…